Pentagon vil benytte løgndetektor for å avdekke lekkasjer - CNN
Pentagon
announces leak investigation that will include polygraphs
By Shania Shelton, CNN
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Published 2:23 PM EDT, Sat
March 22, 2025
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CNN —
The Department of Defense is investigating “recent unauthorized
disclosures of national security information” and plans to use polygraphs as
part of the probe, according to a memo published to the department’s website
Friday.
“The use of polygraphs in the execution of this investigation will be
in accordance with applicable law and policy,” DOD Chief of Staff Joe
Kasper wrote in the memo. “This investigation will commence immediately and culminate in a
report to the Secretary of Defense.”
Kasper wrote that “information identifying a party responsible for an
unauthorized disclosure” would be referred for criminal prosecution.
The memo comes after President Donald Trump pushed back on a New York Times report that DOGE head Elon Musk would be briefed
on US military plans for a potential war with China while at the Pentagon on
Friday. Trump said he wouldn’t show such plans “to anybody.” Pentagon officials
also resoundingly dismissed the reporting on social media. Musk did meet with
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth for over an hour Friday.
The Defense Department is the latest government arm to announce it will
use polygraph tests on employees. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem
said earlier this month her department will continue the practice after reports
she directed polygraphs in the department to include a question about leaks to
the media. She said she still believes there are leakers within the government,
and they should “be held accountable.”
“We have identified two leakers of information here at the Department
of Homeland Security who have been telling individuals about our operations and
putting law enforcement lives in jeopardy. We plan to prosecute these two
individuals and hold them accountable for what they’ve done,” Noem said in a
video on X earlier this month.
The Department of Justice on Friday announced its own probe into “the
selective leak of inaccurate, but nevertheless classified” information related
to the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.
“We will not tolerate politically motivated efforts by the Deep State
to undercut President Trump’s agenda by leaking false information onto the
pages of their allies at the New York Times,” Deputy Attorney General Todd
Blanche said in a statement on Friday. “The Alien Enemies Proclamation is supported by fact,
law, and common sense, which we will establish in court and then expel the TDA
terrorists from this country,”
CNN’s Haley Britzky, Donald Judd and Christian Sierra contributed to
this report.
